Michael Irving

Did you also find that Americans in America are the nicest people ever and then Americans Visiting Other Countries are always the loudest, most obnoxious people you've ever met

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How Jane Goodall Changed Our View of Chimps (And Humans) Forever Jane Goodall, the world's most famous primatologist, accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human.

Jane Goodall accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human. 🧪

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Anyway, it's finally getting released next year, in cinemas no less. But even now, the first trailer was only shown in a Comic Con panel and hasn't officially been released online, so I have to settle for the copy on archive. org that someone recorded on their phone. I watch it like 3 times a week.

I saved everything to this big repository on a hard drive. I literally had DREAMS about the movie leaking and getting to see it. I don't know why I got so obsessed with it, but Looney Tunes and especially Coyote and Road Runner cartoons were a huge part of my childhood. And it just sounded so good!

Crew shared behind the scenes footage and concept art. An extra leaked screenshots and a 6 second clip. The composer released video from a recording session. Somebody even posted a detailed plot summary. I messaged crew members and people who had seen test screenings for every nugget I could get.

Sorry to sidestep, but the movie Coyote vs Acme is far and away my most anticipated anything ever. I was devastated when it was shelved (even though it was fully finished), so I found a community that was sharing every tiny bit of info that existed. And I gobbled absolutely everything up.

I got the first one in the 3D All Stars bundle so I'm only buying the digital copy of the second one for... $60? That can't be right

I really miss that store. I went to so many launches there, including the Wii U and Switch midnight launches

I fear we're not far off an op ed saying "BJ didn't even TRY to debate them first!"

Congrats! I kinda worked with you on the documentary Gameloading, transcribing your interviews and pulling out bits for the companion ebook. I still remember one quote, about how you chose Nazis as the enemy in Wolfenstein because they were clear bad guys, and it just resonates even harder nowadays

Yeah I've found some stuff on like Popcultcha etc that's fairly reasonably priced, but a couple things seem to be just completely absent here. One series used to be common at Zing and even Kmart, but they don't seem to be stocking later waves

There are constantly Walmart and CostCo exclusive Simpsons merch that just never makes it to Australia. I look on American collectors seething with jealousy just strolling into stores and leaving with armfuls

Oh no! That place was awesome, shame to see it go.

Is this at Welcome to Thornbury?

New 'Megaraptor' Species Found With Shocking Last Meal Still in Its Mouth Paleontologists have discovered a new species of megaraptor dinosaur in Argentina, along with a startling clue about what it ate.

I will never tire of being able to professionally nerd out about dinosaurs with paleontologists
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I'd argue it was never strong from the beginning. I'm 3 episodes in and it's a surprising slog to get through

I get this feeling in movies a lot. A carnivorous monster/animal appears, and tries to kill everyone in sight relentlessly. Why did the Alien instantly slaughter the entire weird swinger party in ep 2 of Alien Earth? It didn't eat them, it didn't cart them off to be facehugged. Just for fun?

I think these later ones were the first Coyote and Road Runner shorts I saw as a kid, and I absolutely loved them. Watched through them all again recently aaaaaand that batch doesn't hold up quite as well as the earlier ones

Psychos

I miss it so much. I would read every issue of Hyper and PCPP cover to cover, for the writing itself, even about games I didn't care about.

Jonesy's a jerk. Always jump scaring in the other Alien board game

I only heard about it for the first time this past weekend, and all I know about it is that it was originally an ER reboot then they changed it and now the Crichton estate is suing

I don't remember many episodes but as a kid I watched the hell out of a VHS of the How I Spent My Summer Vacation movie

Yeah I went from "probably buy day one" to "maybe later if I hear it's good and there's nothing else to play" after seeing the gameplay reveal

Throw in a photo mode with Snap-like judgements, why not. I wanna sit in a tree for hours and throw bait to lure Pokemon for photos for other nerds

Weirdly I feel like Z-A is walking back the really interesting stuff in Arceus. Like, I want less talking to humans, and more exploring open wild spaces seeing Pokemon in dynamic natural habitats with varied behaviour and having to catch them with distractions and stealth.

My read on it was like, bike sections that are fairly on rails in between "dungeons". But I could be wrong

The whole thing coulda been 20 minutes shorter if they didn't recap what we'd just seen after every trailer

This is beside the point, but I genuinely like hearing about what people have found/not found at different points in the game. Like, I wonder how different my experience with it was to other people's. Did I find things super early that took other people ages, or vice versa?